Apps similar to HyDE by HyDE-Project include Noctalia, which is free and open source. Other options are Caelestia Shell, DankMaterialShell and ML4W OS. In total there are four Desktop Environments like HyDE by HyDE-Project for Linux.
Noctalia is a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland built with Quickshell. It’s designed with a “quiet by design” philosophy, providing a complete desktop experience that stays out of your way.
Caelestia Shell is a customizable desktop shell for Linux, built with Quickshell and QML. It provides a fluid, animated desktop interface with widgets and system controls, designed to work with Hyprland and the wider Caelestia desktop configuration.
Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, labwc, and MiracleWM.
The ML4W OS - Dotfiles for Hyprland - An advanced and full-featured configuration for the dynamic tiling window manager Hyprland. Ready to install for Arch Linux, Fedora and openSuse.
